Online tournament featuring nice prizes, no pistol rounds.

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Via PNY: “PNY Technologies® teamed up with E-Sports Services and E-Sports Entertainment (ESEA) to kick off its inaugural, professional grade XLR8 gaming tournament, featuring Counter-Strike: Source.  The tournament is online and free, and gamers can register online at www.xlr8gaming.net.  The new PNY XLR8 Gaming portal offers premium servers, new tournament formats, updated product and gaming news, exclusive product offers and opportunities for gamers to win prizes. 

Under the XLR8 Gaming Series format, teams will need to win as many offensive rounds as they can in 10 minutes. This fast, rapid-paced mode of play mirrors the performance of XLR8 Gaming products and offers exciting game play for Counter-strike: Source players similar to the Charges Only format played long ago in the early days of CS. Attacking (T sided) rounds only count towards a team’s score and each team will play only one offensive half per match. The team with the most offensive (T sided) victories after two halves wins. The complete rule set and registration info is available at www.xlr8gaming.net

Several prize packages include1:

  • 1st Place Team - XLR8 Gold Graphics & Memory Package:  (5) XLR8 Gold Series graphics cards valued at approximately $500 each and (5) 2GB kits of XLR8 1173 MHz DDR2 performance memory
  • 2nd Place Team - XLR8 Blue Graphics & Memory Package:  (5) XLR8 Blue Series graphics cards valued at approximately $300 each and (5) 2GB kits of XLR8 1066MHz DDR2 performance memory
  • 3rd Place Team - XLR8 Flash Package:  (5) 4GB XLR8 performance flash drives and (5) 2GB XLR8 performance flash cards

1PNY reserves the right to substitute prizes for equal value.

The XLR8 Gaming Series schedule and registration:

    * Qualifying Week 1: December 17th - 23rd (Registration open now)
    * Qualifying Week 2: January 14th - 20th (Registration open now)
    * Qualifying Week 3: February 4th - 10th (Registration opens 2008)
    * Qualifying Week 4: March 10th - 16th (Registration opens 2008)

The PNY XLR8 Gaming Series will be professionally managed by E-Sports Services and powered by the technology of ESEA. They are the same organizations behind tournaments like WCG USA, CGS, and dozens of other gaming events each year.

PNY Technologies provides a comprehensive line of consumer graphics cards powered by cutting-edge, NVIDIA GeForce graphics technology, marketed under the XLR8 and Vertoâ brands.  With multiple PCIe, AGP and PCI compatible cards, PNY’s broad product line provides an ideal graphics card solution for casual gamers to enthusiasts.  PNY Technologies also offers high performance XLR8 memory upgrade modules.  For more information on product bundles, technical product support, FAQs and the latest up-to-date drivers, please visit PNY’s Web site at www.pny.com.

About PNY Technologies, Inc.
Established in 1985, PNY Technologies®, Inc. is a leading supplier and marketer of NVIDIA Quadro® by PNY professional graphics boards and Verto -brand consumer graphics cards. The company also offers a full line of high-end memory upgrade modules, flash media, Attaché™ USB flash drives, flash peripherals and S-Cure™ Data Protection Cards. Headquartered in Parsippany, N.J., PNY maintains facilities in North America (Santa Clara and Orange County, CA, Miami, FL and Parsippany, N.J.), Europe (France, United Kingdom, Germany) and Asia (Taiwan). For additional information, please visit the company’s Web site at http://www.pny.com.“


Check out the ruleset:

PNY XLR8 Gaming Championship
8 Teams compete for the XLR8 Championships in a double elimination format

  • The most recent version of Counter-strike: Source will be used
  • 5 players per team (teams may have more than 5 players, but will only receive 5 product prizes where applicable)

XLR8 Gaming Series Map Pool

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  • de_inferno
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  • de_train
  • de_nuke

Match Format

  • Players: 5v5
  • Friendly fire: On
  • Time limit: 10 minute halves
  • Freeze time: 15 seconds
  • C4 timer: 35 seconds
  • Round time: 1:25
  • Round limit: 0
  • Start money: $16,000

Overtime Format

  • Time limit: 0
  • Round time: 1:45
  • Round limit: 1 (one T round per team)
  • Start money: $16,000

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Source @ PNY Press Release

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